NEWTON --Brigadier General Alfred F. Abramson III, deputy program executive officer, ammunition, and senior commander at Picatinny Arsenal, recently honored the Newton Robotics team in a student assembly held outside on the school's football field.

The team won the Underwriter Laboratory Industrial Safety Award in St. Louis at the FIRST Championship, from a field of 136 teams and a total of 405 participants that came to the event from all over the world, said James Hofmann, STEM teacher and coach of the Newton High School FIRST Varsity Robotics Team.

Abrahamson met the team in St. Louis at the FIRST competition. In addition to his honoring of the Newton FIRST team at the assembly, the team presented him with a plaque for the eight-year relationship the team has had with ARDEC at Picatinny Arsenal, its founding sponsor.

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